Occupation: Jurist Birth: July 10, 1723 Death: February 14, 1780
Upon these two foundations, the law of nature and the law of revelation, depend all human laws..
Free men have arms; slaves do not..
Every wanton and causeless restraint of the will of the subject, whether practiced by a monarch, a nobility, or a popular assembly, is a degree of ty….
If [the legislature] will positively enact a thing to be done, the judges are not at liberty to reject it, for that were to set the judicial power ab….